Picking up the action after the river of a 
board, Eddy Liang made a bet worth 3,050 into a pot of 6,500 and Liang Song raised all in for 10,325. Song had previously folded in a big pot versus Gab Yong Kim and folded his hands to a prayer while almost closing the eyes.
Liang ultimately made up his mind, said "you win" and sent his cards into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
17,500
3,000
|
3,000 |
Kim Wittendorff as well as Scott Davies finished 4th respectively 3rd in yesterday's HK$50,000 Freezeout and just showed up when the clock went over to level 2. Wittendorff has table 2 seat 2 whereas Davies headed into the other direction of the tournament area.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,000 | |
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|
20,000 | |
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Vivian Im watched as the table folded around to her on the button before betting 300. Her opponent in the big blind made the call before both players watched the flop come 
.
The big blind threw out a continuation bet totalling 800 and was called before doing the same for 1,200 after the 
dropped on the turn. The 
then completed the board and the big blind paused for a moment. He reached for his chips and bet out 2,200. Im took three seconds to contemplate her next move before confidently announcing all in for 20,000 in chips. Her opponent called and tabled his 
.
Im smiled before exposing her 
for the same straight. Im has 23,000 in chips following the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
23,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
||
"How do you do this, you arrive and first hand kings?" Elias Abou Saleh asked table neighbor Eddy Liang over on table 5. Indeed the latter just walked in and claimed 500 chips of profit straight away.
Gab Yong Kim was playing yet another big pot just before that, though the betting action until the 
river is amiss. There were 17,000 chips in the middle and Kim fired 10,000 to eventually enforce a fold from his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
46,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
|
20,500
20,500
|
20,500 |
|
20,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Thomas Ward and Randy "nanonoko" Lew have just showed up at the registration desk and purchased their entry ticket for Day 1b. The PokerStars Team Online member looked far fresher than Ward though, which may be due to the players party last night.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,000 | |
|
|
||
|
20,000 | |
Joining the action on a flop of 
, Vivian Im checked out of the big blind and the initial raiser led for 300 chips. Im made the call to see the 
on the turn and a bet of 525 went through without any further betting action. At the same table, Pierre Aoukar has also taken his seat and may provide some interesting stories to tell.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
21,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
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|
20,000 | |
Celina Lin has been eliminated from the main event early in the first level.
The action started with Gab Yong Kim raising to 250 from the cut off and was called by Lin in the small blind. The flop of 
saw Lin check-call a continuation bet from Kim before the 
dropped on the turn.
Lin checked once more and Kim threw out 750. Lin then came over the top for 2,000 only to be faced with another raise to 7,500. She then opted to move all in for just short of starting stack and was snap called.
Lin: 
Kim: 
Lin had run her top two pair into the set of Kim and would find no help on the 
river resulting in her being one of the first casualties of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
40,000 | |
|
Busted | |
|
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It is still early on but the field has grown since the screens were updated the last time and now at least 210 players have entered the second starting flight. With the late registration available until the end of level 4, the 494 entries from last year may very well be topped. Among the notables to have sat down recently were Akira Ohyama and Guiseppe Reina.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,000 | |
|
20,000 |
It was only a small hand that saw Steve O'Dwyer lead the 
turn for 225 and his opponent folded. A quick chat with the Irish-American revealed that he may take quite a long break after this event instead of jetting to Las Vegas for the World Series Of Poker straight away.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,500
500
|
500 |
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